Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A musical show consisting of skits, songs, and dances, often satirizing current events, trends, and personalities.
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- noun A form of
theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.
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- noun a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
Etymologies
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Examples
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A natural comedian from his early days performing in revue sketches at the Edinburgh festival, Grant adopts an ironic tone about his work as well as his personal life.
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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I intentionally used the word revue, as where I come from it is normal to call something that one would read a “revue”.
RAY Tries His Hand At Oscar Prognostication | Obsessed With Film 2009
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The second half saw a variety of homemade props come on stage, carefully crafted from cardboard, tin foil and a childhood watching Blue Peter, add in some home-made songs and silly voices and you feel like Pappy's are your mates putting on an end-of-term revue in your living room.
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I was putting on end-of-term revue shows which were being "videoed".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The revue is an original production of the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company and was conceived by director Avery Saltzman and choreographer Tim French, aided and abetted by music director Mark Camilleri.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PAULA CITRON 2011
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The revue is the greek community's annual variety show, which is a fundraiser for the United Way.
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The revue is the greek community's annual variety show, which is a fundraiser for the United Way.
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The revue is the greek community's annual variety show, which is a fundraiser for the United Way.
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Studdard recently took some time to talk about the musical revue, which is about Thomas Wright Waller, better known as Fats Waller.
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The revue is a project of the Little Theatre's Relay for Life team with all funds going to the American Cancer Society, according to team captain and director-producer Roxie Long of Zoarville.
treeseed commented on the word revue
A famous example of a revue is the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway in the 1920s
February 4, 2008